Basic Blog Tips

HootSuite Tutorial Video

Your blog is up and running and you've started promoting it on Twitter. Now you're getting yourself a nice healthy sized group of followers and ready to move ahead. The next step for you is to move past using the (boring) Twitter website and expand your Twitter savvy. You need to find an easy-to-use Twitter client.

HootSuite is a free online Twitter application that you must try. Unlike the more widely used service TweetDeck, you don't need to download any software and HootSuite automatically generates tracking statistics for the links you create with the built in ow.ly link shortener.

If you have an iPhone don't worry, they have an app for that! HootSuite for iPhone is available. On the plugins page you'll find extensions for Chrome and Firefox and you can grab a Hootlet too. Let me know what you think after you watch my screencast introduction to using HootSuite.

Have you tried using the HootSuite Twitter client yet? Are you following me on Twitter yet?

I'm a blogger, podcaster, YouTuber and social media diva (or Social Media Veteran if you like the way that sounds better). True story: I started blogging by accident when I actually thought I was "subscribing" to my daughter Nicole's first blog. Since then I'm committed to helping others avoid all the mistakes I've made along the way. Get one-on-one coaching and exclusive perks when you join my community on Patreon!

Hi Karen, Another reason I prefer HootSuite over TweekDeck is that HootSuite seems to update more frequently. There are so many features now, I’m realizing that I forgot to cover them all in the video. Looks like a part 2 might be in the works soon. Thanks for commenting.

Hi Ilene,
I’m glad I found your blog via Kiesha, because I want to learn more about podcasting. Looks like you’re an answer to my prayers.

I just switched to Hootsuite and I found your Tutorial very helpful. I think I will like Hootsuite a lot better than Tweetdeck. I didn’t know how the stats button worked, but you explained it perfectly.

Hi Evelyn, I’m glad you found the video helpful. If you ever have any questions about using HootSuite, let me know. I have more tutorials to come on the topic. I have a few vegan friends that I can send your way too. Kiesha is one of my favorite bloggers.
Thanks for visiting, I appreciate the feedback.

Melinda, I’m glad the video helped persuade you. Thanks for the feedback. Let me know if you have any questions. If you plan to integrate multiple users or accounts I posted a video quick tip in response to a question about how to set them up in HootSuite. Here’s the link on Screenr http://screenr.com/BtM

Jan Geronimo first twisted my arm into using Hootsuite. I was feeling cranky at the time and kind of burnt out on trying all the new “stuff” out there. I had a few cups of coffee, reminded myself that Jan had never led me astray (well, “never” might be too strong a word), and tried Hootsuite. Now I can’t imagine Twitter without it. When I log into the regular Twitter interface, it seems simplistic and naked.
.-= Holly Jahangiri´s last blog ..Mother, Touchstone, Friend =-.

The main reason I switched has to do with the idea of “downloading” transient information to my hard drive. After all, if it’s available on someone else’s server, why duplicate it? I switched from Thunderbird email to Gmail for a similar reason. I know there is a big difference in permanence between tweets and email, but I’ll take my chances in the cloud.

Performance-wise, I may be giving TweetDeck short shrift; however, I just wasn’t seeing all of the tweets that were showing up on the Twitter.com home page.

I hope I like HootSuite, too, since I made a unilateral decision to uninstall TweetDeck! LOL

Last year, Twitter made status updates no-follow so you don’t get link juice from links you post in your status. However, I have heard that some applications that are used to post to Twitter have proven a way around this. Can I get a do-follow link when posting with HootSuite. If so, is the link as strong? Twitter is a page rank 9 site and I want to make sure it is being profitable to post links through an app.

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I'm a blogger, podcaster, YouTuber and social media diva (or Social Media Veteran if you like the way that sounds better). True story: I started blogging by accident when I actually thought I was "subscribing" to my daughter Nicole's first blog. Since then I'm committed to helping others avoid all the mistakes I've made along the way. Get one-on-one coaching and exclusive perks when you join my community on Patreon!Read More…